New VMPlayer - Free VM?

[InTheWayBoy]

Okay, so I haven't been able to try this yet as it can't be installed on a machine running VMWare. The VMPlayer looks to be a tool that will let you load a VM and run it. You can't make them, but you can run them. It'll also load M$ VirtualPC and Symantec Live Recovery images as well...neat!

And it's free!

Here's the new tip: http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/VMwar...er/1129825589/1

Here's the official page: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

And here's the official FAQ: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/faqs.html

So what you all think? I'm wondering if we could legally use this to help test out unattended installs. See, even though you can't make a VM, what if someone made a VM that was a blank HD and setup to boot from a CD ISO file. Then, all MSFN users could download this VM, and since it wouldn't actually contain any code it should be legit. After that, a user could load the VMPlayer with our blank VM to test out their install CD. Good idea?

Eh?

[InTheWayBoy]

Okay, so initial tests look good...you have to setup the VM using VMWare, and if you tell it to use an ISO file it will save that. Then, you install the VMPlayer on another machine and load the previously mentioned VM into it. It will still look at the absolute path to the image file, but it works!

So if you made the VM to point to C:\Temp\unattended.iso, then anyone who uses the VMPlayer must have their iso in that same folder (C:\Temp\) and it must be the same name (unattended.iso).